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Mari Gowda highlights importance of sanitation

— PHOTO: M.A. SRIRAM

Mysore zilla panchayat president K. Mari Gowda inaugurating a workshop on ‘Decentralised wastewater treatment systems’ in Mysore on Wednesday.

MYSORE: A workshop on “Decentralised wastewater treatment system (DEWATS)” was organised here on Wednesday.

Zilla panchayat president K. Mari Gowda inaugurated the workshop and highlighted the importance of maintaining sanitation to overcome health problems.

The workshop was organised by Rural Literacy and Health Programme (RLHP).

According to RLHP, decentralised wastewater treatment system and its integrated approach includes reuse of wastewater.

The objective of the technology is to enhance the health of the people, improve environmental sanitation conditions in poor urban communities and reuse treated water for non-potable purpose.

The organisers said the purpose was to assist society and local government to mainstream community-based sanitation as a viable option in poor urban communities.

Especially, the DEWATS technology can be an important contribution to the improvement of the living conditions in slums.

It is implemented with the total participation of people and well-tested technology. This technology has been implemented at Roopanagar in Mysore.

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